As per the Dowry Prohibition (DP) Act, a list of gifts given to either bride or bridegroom by either side has to be maintained in a list of articles. So there are supposed to be 2 lists really. That’s the theory, but for all practical purposes no one at time of marriage is trying to follow the DP Act to it’s letter, so this law is followed mostly in breach and it’s a useless law for all practical purposes. Here are the various possibilities about the jewellery bills shown by wife/in-laws to CAW, court etc: 1. The bills are real, …[Continue Reading]

Take this quiz now and find your fighter score. See how the score improves over months as you continue within network of men’s rights activists. Quiz: Assess your fighter quotient Read each statement, and add the score given after it if it’s true for you. Women were oppressed for centuries, but 2 wrongs don’t make a right. -2 It’s a man’s world. –2 Laws are in favour of women, so there is nothing we men can do about it. But I want divorce from my wife. -5 My wife had filed 498A before, but we compromised and she came back. …[Continue Reading]

This is a perennial question asked by men facing marital issues and one of these maintenance cases: CrPC 125 Sec 24 of Hindu Marriage Act (HMA 24) Maintenance asked in petition filed under DV Act (the maintenance proceedings run under CrPC 125) It seems no amount of replies as to how it will be calculated is enough. Maybe when the mind gets into an obsessive mode thinking about something, it asks the same thing again and again no matter how many answers anyone else can provide, be they laymen or experts it doesn’t matter much! So instead of attempting to …[Continue Reading]

In case you face threats or actual legal cases like DV, CrPC 125, 498A, 406 from your wife who also has a boyfriend, the situation can be turned to an advantage, of course only if one is able to get over the shock of the whole fraud which has been perpetrated, and assess things from thereon. The context of this post refers to those marriages where the wife starts to show erratic behaviour etc right in beginning of married life (read Advice to men post for details). Many such women come from feminist/matriarchal families, and if not outright feminist family, …[Continue Reading]

To understand some of the terminology and context used in this post, reading some of the important posts is a must. Now this post will cover the majority of cases of calls and issues received by men’s rights activists (MRAs) all over India. Almost 80-90% of callers have been into very short marriages, anywhere from 1 year to 3 years where the time wife was in same home as husband maybe anywhere from few weeks, few months, or maximum maybe 1.5 years or so. So even if the marriage happened 3 years back, the time wife stayed with husband maybe …[Continue Reading]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Be-creative-end-alimony-delays-Madras-high-court/articleshow/39971242.cms Passing orders on a petition filed by Anita, who said her husband Mahaveer Sancheti had defaulted on payment of monthly alimony of 10,000 since 2011, Justice S Vimala said in an order on Tuesday that courts should not do three things while handling such cases. One: They could not remain a mute spectators, merely recording the fact that maintenance amount had not been given. Two: They could not ask the wife to file a new execution petition, as it would give the husband some more opportunity to drag proceedings. Three: They should not grant innumerable adjournments, so that the …[Continue Reading]

Question: Usually how the court cases take place ? Like how much time is allocated , do we get chance to talk in court ? Whats the normal court procedure ? I heard the judge dont even look at the person and ask two questions and give other hearing date Yup. Broadly correct. Bench clerk will call the case in open court, judge will take the case file from bench clerk, look at case file, then at advocates of both parties, then into the case file, and at bench clerk from time to time. In the meantime, one or both …[Continue Reading]

The Rohtak sisters Pooja and Arti Kumar who became national sensations by standing up to few boys who ‘molested’ them are now getting shredded as more videos and eye-witnesses’ accounts come to light. Update Feb 27, 2015: As I had already asserted, the polygraph tests were done to protect the Rohtak sister duo, and that’s exactly how the case is turning out to be. If the lie-detector tests had gone in their favour, then they would have splashed it in media. Now that it went against the duo, you tell the world that lie-detector tests are not reliable. Update Dec …[Continue Reading]

When married men are facing a persistent martial issue, at some point they decide that it is time to take advice from a lawyer. Note: If you don’t already have a legal case but are fearing one soon, read this post to find out your probability of getting a false case filed on you. Many people are under the impression that an advocate is a professional just like a doctor, and they trust that they will get the same good advice as they get from a doctor. Nothing could be more endangering to your future than believing in this doctor-lawyer …[Continue Reading]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/venezuelas-newest-shortage-breast-implants-25502445?singlePage=true The news is from Venezuela. After Venezuela having 63% inflation in an year and shortages of food, toilet paper, and even newsprint it seems the latest shortage is one of breast implants. Venezuelans once had easy access to implants approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But doctors say they are now all-but impossible to find because restrictive currency controls have deprived local businesses of the cash to import foreign goods. It may not be the gravest shortfall facing the socialist South American country, but surgeons say the issue cuts to the psyche of the image-conscious Venezuelan woman. …[Continue Reading]